International Solidarity Mission in Nueva Viscaya (2008)

[illuddulli]

Anti-mining people are just thinking about their funds. They don't want progress to the community. I know the real story in Didipio. At first there are no houses built surrounding the deposit. However, when the local people found out that the company is paying for infrastructures built that is when they started to build a lot of houses surrounding the area. For the record, no one ever lived in the house that they are building. They just put that house so that the company can pay them money.

[illuddulli]

Imagine they are building a house worth P10,000 and asking the company to pay it back for P200,000. Now tell me who is the evil ones here. And yet the NGO's are tolerating this kind of attitude from the local people. Another issue here is that the anti-mining people are against the extraction of minerals while they are patronizing the products of mining such as cars, jewelries, celphone, computers, cements, clothes, etc. Almost all of our basic needs nowadays are products of mining.